false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581610m/6374049.jpg 6374049 1 <DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>From CDs at Virgin Records, to the hallowed vinyl of DJs and audiophiles, to the MP3s cramming college servers, recordings are by far the most common way we experience music. Yet their ubiquity has deafened us to the way the processes that create them shape our understanding of what music is.<DIV><I></I> <DIV><I>Perfecting Sound Forever </I>tells the history of recorded music, from Edison’s quest to perfectly capture the sound of a live performance to the state of affairs one hundred years later where the armada of producers who turn Jennifer Lopez into a recording artist want us to believe in a performance that never actually happened. Along the way, the music journalist Greg Milner takes us through the major recording achievements, breakthroughs, and failures, focusing on the innovators, musicians, and producers who changed the way we hear our favorite songs—from Les Paul to Phil Spector to Neil Young and King Tubby (the inventor of the dub remix). He charts the key points in a debate that spans the past century: Should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible, or should it improve upon or somehow <I>transcend </I>the music it records? The answers he uncovers will change the very way we think about music.</DIV> 6561680 9 6 2009 Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music total:13|5:6|4:6|3:1|2:0|1:0| 13 57 47 6 4 0 false false Mon Oct 26 20:17:57 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 20:35:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 05:54:41 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 06:40:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 07:58:25 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 10:48:16 -0700 2009
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